Parasite director Bong Joon-ho's Mickey 17 looks like the cinematic event of winter in new trailer
More than half a decade after his 2019 film Parasite became the first non-English language film to win Best Picture, Oscar-winning auteur Bong Joon-ho is finally back, and he's swinging for the galactic fences.
Leveling up in terms of budget, scope and star power, Joon-ho's Mickey 17 looks like one of his most original and out-of-this-world wacky efforts right out the gate.
Starring Robert Pattinson as a man who joins a company where he regenerates with a new body each time he dies in the name of science, Mickey 17 looks like a fascinating switch-up from Parasite and reminds us a good bit of his previous films like 2014's Snowpiercer and 2017's Okja.
Honestly, this looks like Joon Ho's most outwardly comedic film since his 2000 debut Barking Dogs Never Bite and absolutely not a typical Oscar film.
It also looks like an absolute blast, the kind of truly daring, wildly original sci-fi film with a massive budget that we just do not get anymore in theaters. It's absolutely thrilling that we're getting a movie like this from a major studio in the month of January. Like, this does not happen.
Just one trailer in, and it's already clear that Joon-ho used his Parasite director cache and a bunch of Warner Bros. Discovery's money on his version of a Paul Verhoeven-coded Star Trek movie. How cool is that?!?
The film comes out on Jan. 31 next year, and we cannot wait to see what's in store.
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